Santiago Ramon y Cajal Quotes

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works - it's called lifelong learning.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.

Any desire to grow is following the flow of love

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

All experiences are either positive for your brain or negative. If you maximize the positive ones, you are shaping the brain you want to being you the world you want.

Invest in your brain, invest in your talents. Those things can appreciate and they get better as you get older.

You are the masterpiece of your own life. You are the Michelangelo of your own life. The David you are sculpturing is you (Dr. Joe Vitale)

The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was one of them. He lived a terrible a life for the first 33 years, and then he radically changed.

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.